was having my ass kicked by covid yesterday, legit felt worse than i did without a vaccine (back in like november of 2020 i think when vaxes werent out yet). had maybe 3 days of symptoms up till then. cue my shock when i go to sleep for 14 hours and wake up feeling awesome. as day goes on im still not 100% but i feel way better. maybe in another 4-7 days i'll be at 100%.

shit dragged on forever on my first run with covid. so my impression is that the vaccine, at least for me, drastically reduced the length of covid but not the severity of it

nowhere else to post this so im doing it here

  • Mother [any]
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    3 years ago

    mRNA vaccines are a medical breakthrough on par with the discovery of penicillin. The ability to get cells to produce proteins is the culmination of thirty years of research. Here is a good article about it:

    https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-are-mrna-vaccines-so-exciting-2020121021599

    We are incredibly lucky that this technology just happened to be commercially viable right as it was needed most— this is why they were able to produce a vaccine in less than a year. It’s truly a miracle of modern medicine.

    This of course makes it all the more regrettable that it’s being spit on by the chuds, and of course, that the patents behind this amazing technology are being locked away for profit instead of freely shared among all peoples

    • TheCaconym [any]
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      3 years ago

      :this:

      It's a fucking insane breakthrough. mRNA vaccines:

      • Can be manufactured 1000% faster than traditional vaccines.
      • Are at least 95% cheaper to manufacture than traditional vaccines.
      • Require facilities 99% smaller to manufacture - like a single room in a traditional facility would be enough to produce more than the entire building previously.

      This is what many antivaxx people are missing when they talk about how "usually it took years to produce a vaccine"; we had a breakthrough, and it stands on decades of research. We were, indeed, lucky.

    • Parent [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      It is pretty mindblowing if you think about it. Any protein you want we can get your own body to print it. The possibilities for different diseases seem endless.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Remember when Polio patents were waived because of fucking course you would do that. Imagine any fucking firm doing that today?